Need New cooler for Q6700

[syche9876]

Specs
Q6700
4 Gb G-Skill
Asus P5N-D
Corsair 750TX
2x 9600GT
2x seagate baracuda in raid 0
all housed in coolermaster CM690 with 2 120mm fans on top and 1 120mm on the back.

I currently have a Zero therm Cf800
http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2882725&CatId=493
This cooler has a broken pin, fan bearings are rattling, the nickel plating is peeling and underneath it doesn look like copper lol,

Anyway I will be overclocking with the new cooler somewhere between 3.0 to 3.4 Ghz

I need a recomendation for cooler, can't decide, so here is what a looked at

COOLER MASTER Hyper Z600
COOLER MASTER v8
Vigor Monsoon III
Tuniq Tower
Sycthe Mugen 2

Two top cooler are expensive and bottom 3 are kick ass and are in a good price range. Im open to any other coolers that i dont know about.

As for the thermal paste Artic Silver 5 looks good but open to any better recomandations.

 

[spinny]

If I were choosing between those, I would probably get the Mugen 2 myself. The Hyper Z600 does seem to perform very well too.

Two other cheapies with excellent performance: Xigmatek HDT-S1283 and Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer.

As far as thermal paste, I've used AS5 for years and was perfectly happy with it. In my most recent build I used MX-2 and it seems to be working great as well.

 

[overshocked]

^ +1 to the CCF

 

[syche9876]

Looking at the bottom of the coolers its weird on CCF and xigimatek that it has 4 pipes mixed with nickel.

 

[overshocked]

^ hence why people will lapp it to remove the nickle layer (=

 

[syche9876]

^ hence why people will lapp it to remove the nickle layer (=

aahhh now i get the whole lapping process however im not quite ready to do that lol to scared. In that case ill go for one of the total contact( completly even bottom) cooler.

looking at all these im kind of leaning towards sythe mugen 2 since it got flat bottom, and maybe not going to make to much noise like the vigor monsoon 3 with the 2 fans and has free shipping.

 

[overshocked]

^i would lapp it if i were u!

 

[AKM880]

The Scythe Mugen 2 is a great cooler, my friend has his i7 920 at 3.6Ghz with the SM2 and good temps.

 

[TexasRattleSnake]

Titan's Fenrir cooler if you could find it in the US, its at least as good as the CCF!
If the budget allows for it however, go with the Prolimatech's Megahalems

 

[overshocked]

Titan's Fenrir cooler if you could find it in the US, its at least as good as the CCF!
If the budget allows for it however, go with the Prolimatech's Megahalems

Like ive said many times though, the fenrir is almost the exact same design as the CCF.

In my tests the CCF has performed better than the fenrir with the same speed fan (=

 

[MRFS]

If you still have your stock Intel HSF,
this LGA775 "bolt-thru-kit" works great,
and it's very inexpensive too:

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/lgbowiscsp.html


We have it installed on an Intel 540 "Prescott" CPU
overclocked to 3.6 GHz, and the temps are perfect.


MRFS

 

[syche9876]

Now when you say lapping do you mean polishing the heatsink with different grades of sand paper or lapping the cpu with the razor blade?

 

[overshocked]

Now when you say lapping do you mean polishing the heatsink with different grades of sand paper or lapping the cpu with the razor blade?

With sandpaper. (=

 

[overshocked]

IF you wont build a HSH
then get the CCF because it kicks ass

 

[AKM880]

CCF or Xigmatek Dark Knight or Scyth Mugen 2 all three of these are similar if not better than the V8 and also a bit cheaper than the V8